iPhone - detecting crashes, prompting user to send crash log

Question

Are there any libraries out there that would allow end users to send crash reports to developers?

For example, a user is using my app. It crashes. On boot up, a library loads before everything else and notices there is a crash report and prompts the user to send the crash log to me.

Is this possible? I think the Facebook app does something like this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You actually have access to crash logs in iTunes Connect. Log in, go to Manage your Applications, pick an app, "View Details", and you should see a "Crash Reports" link to the right of the details pane.

That said, Apple only refreshes these daily, and will only give you access to reports of the most common crashes. If you want finer control, or need the user to submit reports directly, try plcrashreporter. You could ask the user for a submission this way, or just go ahead and automatically send all reports to your server. From the plcrashreporter site:

Introduction

Plausile CrashReporter implements in-process crash reporting on the iPhone and Mac OS X. The following features are supported:

Implemented as an in-process signal handler. Does not interfer with debugging in gdb.. Handles both uncaught Objective-C exceptions and fatal signals (SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, etc). Full thread state for all active threads (backtraces, register dumps) is provided. If your application crashes, a crash report will be written. When the application is next run, you may check for a pending crash report, and submit the report to your own HTTP server, send an e-mail, or even introspect the report locally.